Ingress APK Teardown [1.69.0]

Welcome back to another Ingress Teardown. Version 1.69.0 is currently on its 1% rollout to a Play Store near you. This update is a small one and looks to be predominantly related to Android Wear support. We haven’t heard an official announcement about this development, but we can continue to peek into the APK and learn more about it.

Wearables

Before an application can support Android Wear devices, it must include a simple config file to help map information for Android Wear to find. As of 1.69.0, this file was added.

Sorry for the terribly short teardown. This update as mentioned seemed entirely focused on Wearables. For those interested the build date says January 21, but we obtained it on January 26. I will see you again for the next teardown! Feel free to leave a comment below discussing this change.